Caparison Guitars

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Hand made guitar manufacturer

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::summary Hand made guitar manufacturer ::

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Field	Value
name	Caparison Guitars
logo	Caparison guitars logo.png
logo_size	200
foundation
founder	Itaru Kanno
location_country	Japan
key_people	Itaru Kanno, Gabriel Ösztreicher
area_served	Asia, Europe, North America
industry	Musical instrument
products	Electric guitars
parent	Caparison Guitar Co. Ltd., Cardiff
owner	George and Gabriel Ösztreicher
homepage
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History

The company was established in 1995 with the former Jackson/Charvel Japan design division. The Charvel designers created the CDS Series, CDS II Series, and Questar Series, while the Jackson designed contributed with the Doug Aldrich, Soloist Special, Dinky AXE and Falcon models. Caparison was owned by Kyowa Shokai Ltd, a company that made contracts with factories to produce guitars for them (like Hoshino Gakki).

In May 2011, Shokai was declared bankrupt; however, Caparison resumed production in September 2011 under the ownership of the Caparison Guitar Company Ltd., a company in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The company retained Itaru Kanno as lead designer and the instruments are still manufactured with Iida Corporation in Nagoya, Japan.

Guitars

Their Horus model features a 27-fret neck with clock inlays that shows a different time for each fret position — 1 o'clock on the first fret, 3 o'clock on the third, 5 o'clock on the fifth fret, and so on. TAT Special (Through and Through), and Orbit models also feature 27-fret necks.

Their Dellinger models also feature clock inlays on the fretboard; however, these guitars feature 24-fret necks. Other Caparison Guitar models are the Angelus (including the ACE signature models), Susanoh, Michael Romeo Signature Dellinger Prominence MJR, Joel Stroetzel Signature Dellinger-JSM and Mattias "IA" Eklundh Signature Apple Horn 8. The Orbit has a design that deviates from the 'Flying V' shape by adding a curve at the left of the neck joint and an elongated upper horn.

Caparison design their own humbucking, single coil, and dual-rail humbucking pickups, which are produced by Gotoh Pick Ups located in Nagano, Japan. The dual-rail humbucking pickup fits into the footprint of standard single coil pickup. Caparison also design their own fixed bridge (produced by Gotoh Gut Co., ltd.).

References

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